Launched in 2017, Georgia Tech’s Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) unifies data science researchers and resources spanning all disciplines throughout Georgia Tech to take on grand challenges in data science. Led by co-executive directors Srinivas Aluru and Dana Randall, IDEaS strategically builds collaborations and supporting resources to stimulate foundational research in areas such as machine learning, high-performance computing, and algorithms and optimization. It identifies and unites researchers to pursue collaborative and ambitious funding opportunities, to drive and influence the future of research, and to evolve and promote data science education. IDEaS provides an accessible and stable means of navigating the vast landscape of data science research and opportunities internally and externally as it connects to industry and other partners.